In other words, there’s absolutely nothing the slightest bit amateurish about this animated student film. Not a moment that doesn’t sing, “Hire me!”
But is that a good thing?
Peer Production: MIRAGE Shows That Its Makers are Ready for the Pros
Tag: Larry Brody
TVWriter™ Celebrates Our All-Time Top Articles
Because it’s been a year since we switched to this new format and we’re proud of all we’ve been able to bring our visitors in that time!
Besides, if we don’t go all whacko about our accomplishments, who will?
The Best Discussions of TV Writing You’ll Ever Hear
…At least until the next best discussions take place.
Variety.Com held a couple of panels last week, one on life in the writers room of drama shows and one on life in the writers room of sitcoms.
LB: “The New Republic” Gets Television All Wrong
…But the post below is still worth reading cuz arguing about this shit is always fun:
by Craig Fehrman
Our best TV shows may be more complex than ever, but our theory of their greatness has become utterly reductive: In this reputedly golden age of television, it all boils down to the showrunner, television’s own auteur.
According to this theory, the villain is a clueless suit, sending along absurd notes; the hero is the courageous iconoclast, ready to fight the tiniest battle. Here’s one example from the set of “Mad Men,” recounted in Alan Sepinwall’s recent book, The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever: A costume designer presented the perfect button-up dress for a love scene to showrunner Matthew Weiner. “Unzipping is sexier,” he replied—and off she went to find a new dress. Everyone seems to thrill at these stories of micromanaging prowess. It’s why novelists are trying to write cable pilots; why The Hollywood Reporterpublishes its annual “Top 50 Power Showrunners”; and why, in 2010, no less an outlet than Cahiers du Cinéma—the French publication that popularized the original film version of auteur theory—put “Mad Men” on its cover. This narrative has been reinforced by long magazine profiles of David Chase (showrunner for “The Sopranos”), David Simon (“The Wire”), David Milch (“Deadwood”), Shonda Rimes(“Scandal”), Lena Dunham (“Girls”), Liz Meriwether (“New Girl”), and others.
Stacy Porter: A Few Words About Write Vault
Stacy Porter is managing director of the kind of site for which we have a soft spot in our hearts. It’s called Write Vault and is a place to register and protect intellectual property.
As the site puts it: